A manhunt is underneath method for a gang of thieves who carried out a broad daylight raid on Paris’s Louvre Museum, and stole jewels described as priceless.
The gang seem to have used a mechanical ladder to succeed in a first-floor window, earlier than breaking into show circumstances and escaping on motorbikes.
The BBC’s Hugh Schofield is outdoors the museum the place the “extraordinary, daring and brazen” theft happened.
